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The Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) has been awarded $15 million to lead an international collaboration that aims to translate years of clinical research on the mathematical modelling of human physiology.
ABI Director, Distinguished Professor Peter Hunter (back) discusses their model of the rat heart with software developers Dr Alan Garny (middle) and Dr Nazanin Ebrahimi (front).
Funding for the 12 Labours project been awarded through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employments (MBIEs) Catalyst Strategic Fund, and is one of the largest research grants that MBIE has awarded the University.
The project is named in reference to the 12 labours of Hercules, the tasks Heracles had to complete to be granted immortality, and also the 12 organ systems of the human body.
$15m mega-project aims to create 'virtual humans'
3 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Auckland Bioengineering Institute deputy director Professor Merryn Tawhai has been using computational modelling to map out human lung structure and function. Photo / University of Auckland
Auckland Bioengineering Institute deputy director Professor Merryn Tawhai has been using computational modelling to map out human lung structure and function. Photo / University of Auckland
Insights about our bodies gleaned from years of modelling are set to be translated into clinical practice, in a major new effort that could bring us closer to personalised medicine. In what's been dubbed the "12 Labours" project, University of Auckland researchers will build off a sprawling international effort to create a complete virtual physiological human.